The democrats a gift during that hearing today. We have fox team coverage. John roberts at the white house with the president taking matters in his own hands and fingers, 280 at a time. We start off a chief correspondent mike emanuel on a full and interesting day. President trump was not on capitol hill for todays hearing but his use of hearing in an attack but the president in the middle of the action. A president ial tweet the ring ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is testimony rocks todays hearing. I will read one of his tweets. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started in somalia, how did that go . Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went bad, started off in somalia, where did that go, fastforward to ukraine where the new ukrainian president spoken favorably about her in my second phone call with him. Its the u. S. President s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. And then yovanovich reacted to the attack in real time. I cant speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating. Adam schiff quickly labeled it witness intimidation and another word has emerged in the democratic lexicon. What the president has admitted to and says its perfect, i said its perfect. Its bribery. The dccc has been conducting focus groups in key house battlegrounds which found the term bribery the most damning description of the conflict over quid pro quo or extortion. We are not here to talk about tweets. Republicans was a privately acknowledge the trump tweet was damning to their side paid for the most part, g. O. P. Lawmakers did not attack yovanovichs quit ability, directing most of their fire to schiffs handling of the process. Are at indulgence with you without a long time ago, mr. Ch. Claims due to a campaign of disinformation of corrupt ukrainian interest. We have a new administration in ukraine that did not have confidence in this ambassador. Emma craddick mike quigley mock to the public everything worked out well. Its not the end of a hallmark movie. Its the end of the really bad Reality Tv Show brought to you by someone who knows a lot about them. What it was over, witness drew applause and lawmakers went behind closed door to question david holmes based on new evidence. Holmes overheard a cell phone conversation between ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sondland and President Trump when ambassador bill taylor says the president was focused on the investigations. That sets the stage for next week with eight weaknesses expected to testify in public including ambassador sondland. Bret lets get President Trump side of the story regarding todays tweets and his take on the testimony. Heres chief White House Correspondent john roberts. At an event to promote honesty and transparency in health care pricing, President Trump insisted he wasnt trying to intimidate ambassador Marie Yovanovitch when he tweeted about her as she was testifying. Do you know what . I have the right to speak of the freedom of speech just as other people do. I want freedom of speech, its a political process. The republicans have been treated very badly. The press secretary has the president s back saying that the tweet was not witness intimidation, simply his opinion which hes entitled to. Its not a trial, a partisan political process. To put it more accurately, it totally illegitimate charade stacked against the president. Rudy giuliani who lobbied for yovanovichs removal issued a Statement Today insisting that he had evidence from a number of witnesses willing to testify who all agreed on ambassador jovanovichs wrongdoing from telling people trump will be impeached to getting to the george soros case and others dismissed to her partisan involvement in the 2016 election. As the hearing began, the white house released a memorandum of President Trumps first phone call with the country president zelensky. The president invites id like to invite you to the white house. Well have a lot of things to talk about, but we are with you all the way. Zelensky, thank you for the invitation. We thank you for the invitation and look forward to the visit. Also looking forward for President Trump to come to his inauguration asking the president three times to come to ukraine. President trump does not commit to attending but promises at a very minimum, well have a great represented. In the end, Energy Secretary rick perry attended the inauguration. Ambassador yovanovich, thank you for being here. Whawhat is the initial option fr this time . President trump railed against chairman adam schiff are not allowing the congressman Elise Stefanik to ask questions. Its sad when you see people not allowed to ask questions. Schiff laid out that the Ranking Member could not allow other members to allow any of his initial 45 minutes to ask questions. The president also pointed out that ukraines foreign minister last night had again denied any quid pro quo, i have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance. Yes, the investigations were mentioned, you know, in the conversation of the president , but there was no clear connection between these events. I thought last night it ended. They came out loud and clear that there was no leakage whatsoever, not even a little bit. You all saw it. I said, oh, that ends the impeachment. Also said the ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sondland did not tell us and not tell me about a connection between the assistance and the investigations. But sondland testified to congress that he did tell zelensky advisor Andriy Yermak on september 1st in warsaw. When he appears next wednesday, sondland, no doubt, will be a marquee witness. Bret a big one to watch. John, thanks. Also breaking tonight, former trump confident roger stone is out of jail this evening but might not be for long. He is facing decades in prison after being convicted of lying to congress and witnessed tampering. Correspondent david spock has details. Guilty on seven counts, including witness tampering and lying to congress. As the verdict was announced, stone was stoic. The judge released him on his own recognizance under a gag order, though the prosecution wanted him taken into custody today. Witnesses painted a cozy relationship between stone and an wikileaks, President Trumps former campaign chief executive steve bannon testified for the prosecution that stone was an access point to wikileaks. Stone implied that he could use his wikileaks contacts to obtain information about Hillary Clinton, but never brag about having access to nonpublic documents. Former trump official rick gates struck a plea deal with special Counsel Robert Mueller testified that he witnessed a july 2016 phone call between then candidate trump and roger stone. Gates told jurors he didnt hear the call word for word but after it ended he claims that trump said more information gates believed from wikileaks would be coming. Trump has denied that claim. Also testifying a new york radio host and former stone confident named randy saying of stone in court, i cant work on his level. He plays hardball, there is a lot of junk and i didnt want to get hit. Often discuss the godfather films, said that stone told him to do a frank mandel frank mandel the jury was told not to watch any godfather films during the trial. During the announcement of a verdict, the president tweeted in part, they convict roger stone of lying and convict them many years to come . A double standard never seen before in the history of our country. There is always a chance President Trump could pardon roger stone. No indication that could happen. He will hell be sentenced in District Court february 6. The maximum he could face, 50 years behind bars. Considering he has no prior conviction, that number is expected to drop significantly. Bret outside u. S. District court. Thanks. Another huge day on wall street with all three major exchanges closing in record territory again. The dow surging 223 to cross the 28,000 milestone for the first time. The s p 500 finished ahead 24. The nasdaq gained the 62. For the week, the dow was up 1. 5 percentage point. The s p 500 gained ninetenths. The nasdaq finished ahead about three quarters of a point. Israel says it has completed a series of air strikes on targets in gaza and they will all be annoyed trey yingst is in gaza city again tonight. As the dust of war, both israel and with 34 dead in gaza,there are r palestinian factions to start launching rockets and continue pressure on israel. After the death of Islamic Jihad military commander lounged a new row the conflict this week, exchanges in palestinian rocket fire and israeli air strikes consume the region. One of the last major events of the three day around the violence took place wednesday night when a family of eight was killed in the israeli air strike. Israel who took great pride in the intel that led to the pinpoint assassination of the Islamic Jihad commander denied friday that they knew civilians, including children, were inside the house that was wiped off the map, leaving a large crater. Hamas, the group and control of a gaza strip, describe the act as a war crime and called on the International Criminal court to investigate. Hamas spokesperson said, the Israeli Occupation forces attacked the house with previous knowledge that civilians are living there. Even israel did not alert them before attacking so they could leave the house, which cause the killing of innocent children and women. The Israeli Defense forces did confirm they are investigating the incident after they were unable to confirm their target and Islamic JihadRocket Matter was inside the house. Gaza remains calm. The hospital in the house that had bodies being brought in today celebrated the birth of quadruplets. This streets was empty from violence to have people in them again enjoying their friday night with friends and family. Bret thank you. Investigators in Southern California are trying to determine why a 16yearold spent the early hours of his birthday shooting up his high school. Police say the boy killed two other students yesterday and wounded two more before turning the gun on himself. The shooter is said to be in critical condition. The two wounded students are reported in Good Condition tonight. Up next, how the media is covering and interpreting the public impeachment hearings. First, heres what our fox affiliates are doing around the country tonight. Fox live in new york says huber must pay the state of new jersey after misidentifying its drivers as independent contractor rather than employees. Bloomberg log reports the Ridesharing Company owes 523 billion in overdue visibility insurance and unemployed mens taxes. They were not paid over the past oracle years. The National Football league suspends indefinitely Cleveland Browns player myles garrett. Striking a player from pittsburgh in the head with a helmet during last nights game. Two other players were suspended for one and three games respectively, the teams refined to adjust 50,000 each. 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Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Bret former administration advisors who originally voted to approve lasik eye surgery now says the procedure should be taken off the market. Maurice wexler tells cbs that he estimates place it complications range between 10 30 . The agency has told cbs news they have not found and the safety concerns associated with lasik devices. Defense secretary mark esper says hes certain the awarding of a 10 billion Cloud Computing contract to microsoft instead of amazon was done fairly. Amazon was alleging what it calls unmistakable bias on the governments part and said it will challenge the decision in court. Microsoft is not commenting. Republican impeachment hearings have dominated the news, of course, which with much of the week. Host of foxs media buzz howard kurtz looks at how the press is covering historic sessions. Speak of the coverage has seemingly split into parallel universes. Antitrump commentators saying the testimony of career diplomats is devastating to the president and protrump analysts calling it secondhand and irrelevant. Hes a very matteroffact guy, straight forward. These two guys testifying, couldnt tell if they were doing a Job Interview talking about their greatgrandfather and wife, or where the homeless guys. Republicans did not say one word about this devastating new testimony about donald trump caring more about investigating joe biden then he cares about ukraine. Actually unfolded was a complete and utter disaster for adam schiff. There was praise across the board today for the ousted ambassador to ukraine, and criticism of the president for tweeting everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. The instantly changed the media narrative. This woman has ice in her veins. Dont forget the president of the United States is their boss, and is now intimidating them publicly. Extraordinarily poor judgment. I do not think it rises to the level of intimidation, but i think thats the way its going to be characterized. The Cable News Network took different approaches for the first day of fox and cnn coverage anchored by teams of journalists, msnbc had Brian Williams with extant critic senator claire mccaskill, obama was solicitor general, nicole wallace, and trump bashing lawyer george conway, husband of kellyanne conway. Its just direct violation of his oath of office. Some general is found the initial hearings watch by 13 Million People pretty dull, though impeachment shouldnt be a scintillating tv show. But the present provided bret thanks. Up next, joe bidens interest and experience in impeachment proceedings. First, beyond our borders to inaccurate Security Forces fired live rounds and tear gas at antigovernment protesters in central baghdad today. Three people were killed. At least 320 people have died and thousands more wounded since the unrest began october 1st. 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